How To Install ags on Fedora 34

ags is Engine for creating and running videogames of adventure (quest) genre

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ags on Fedora 34.

What is ags

Adventure Game Studio (AGS) - is the IDE and the engine meant for creating and running videogames of adventure (aka “quest”) genre. It has potential, although limited, support for other genres as well. Originally created by Chris Jones back in 1999, AGS was opensourced in 2011 and since continued to be developed by contributors.

We can use yum or dnf to install ags on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ags.

Install ags on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ags using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ags

Install ags on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ags using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ags

How To Uninstall ags on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the ags package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ags

ags Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ags
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/0a6ab77e012c0e944f8278813920a993c28acf
/usr/share/doc/ags
/usr/share/doc/ags/Changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/ags/Copyright.txt
/usr/share/doc/ags/OPTIONS.md
/usr/share/doc/ags/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ags
/usr/share/licenses/ags/License.txt
/usr/bin/ags
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/0112246174f4f246b38be3e9a91d06b49e4ae6
/usr/share/doc/ags
/usr/share/doc/ags/Changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/ags/Copyright.txt
/usr/share/doc/ags/OPTIONS.md
/usr/share/doc/ags/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ags
/usr/share/licenses/ags/License.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ags on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.